Mexican thanks Hangzhou village for sharing e-commerce model

Bedolla hence launched the Mexican Digital Village Project, and with the help of the local government and Alibaba Global Digital Economy Talent Project, he decided to use Bainiu village as a template as to how to bring the e-commerce model to Mexico.

Over the past two years, Bedolla and his team have trained 400 teachers and 8,000 students and helped about 1,500 Mexican micro-enterprises. The resulting changes were significant.

For example, in Guanajuato, a Mexican state which was once laggard, people can now not only sold handmade stone mortars to high-end restaurants, but also sold them to Indonesia, South Africa and other countries.

Finely polished stone mortars from the state saw a price increase from just a few dollars to upwards of $200.

Many villages that had been hollowed out have now see an influx of many young people as the handicrafts are no longer considered an embarrassment to younger generations.